Crews from Bay City-based Dore & Associates work on demolishing former Consumers Energy headquarters this January and could be completed as soon as October with the entire project. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

JACKSON, MI – The demolition of the former Consumers Energy building in downtown Jackson should be completed this fall.

With the cold weather of recent weeks, he said the Bay City-based Dore and Associates Contracting Inc. workers have moved to interior demolition. While he said they haven’t had any major issues, there was a recent situation when wind blew away insulation on a top floor in a secured area and workers had to collect it from the downtown area.

“They do everything to secure that…but you can’t help if the weather is going to be uncooperative,” Hicks said. “The wind can be an issue.”

Another issue with the demolition was deciding what to do with a unusual piece of art located on the first floor of the building. The 28-foot-long, 9-foot-tall colorful glass mural was considered by some as a piece of Jackson's history. Hicks said that he was unsure of the future of the art, but he believed several different groups were interested in it, for the moment it is secured.

“That has been removed, it is being stored at a secure facility,” he said. “We’re holding onto for now. We did save it and we would like to put it back at some point, through private donation and that sort of thing.”

As for the completion date, while at one point it was thought be done by September, Hicks said October is now looking like the potential completion date.

“We’re kind of anticipating…they’d be done sometime around October of this year,” Hicks said, adding that while that is the target date, it is a moving date and could change in the future. “We’re hoping it will be done this year."